1771 in France
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Events from the year 1771 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- Limoges porcelain manufacture is established
Births
- 3 January â Louis Pierre Ãdouard, Baron Bignon, diplomat and historian (died 1841)[2]
- 19 June â Joseph Diaz Gergonne, mathematician and logician (died 1859)
- 24 June â Ãleuthère Irénée du Pont, chemical manufacturer (died 1834 in the United States)
- 18 August â Louis-François Bertin de Vaux, journalist (died 1842)
Deaths
- 20 February â Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, geophysicist, astronomer and chronobiologist (born 1678)
- 27 December â Henri Pitot, hydraulic engineer, inventor of the pitot tube (born 1695)
